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How much would Russian soldiers need to be paid to defect if offered EU citizenship?
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Prisons compared
How do prison sentences compare with alternatives that are neither incapacitative nor criminogenic at different costs of crime?
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NATO ascendant
A model of the levels of Western support needed for a Ukrainian victory by level of Russian mobilisation, under a Cobb-Douglas production function
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Innovative externality inclusion
If the current level of regulation is privately optimal, how does inclusion of innovation externalities change the optimal global level?
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Tsunami invariant
How does inclusion of remittances, endogenous capital stocks and immigrant effects on productivity affect the path of the population under open borders?
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Advantage diminishing
How important is comparative advantage in determining the marginal value of additional population?
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Term time
How long should the time between politician's elections be?
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A benefit greater yet
How does endogenising the population affect the marginal technological externalities of one additional birth?
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